Reading the Bible
This page covers how to read the Bible with this app, including navigation, translations, display modes, and reading several passages at once.
Study Tools
The study tools follow the verse selected in the Bible pane. Commentaries, cross-references, and topics update when the selection changes.
Searching
{} searches the Bible and can also search the text of your other modules (like commentaries).
Notes & Highlights
Modules are read-only. Highlights, bookmarks, and prayer lists are stored in a separate database. Notes are files in a folder you choose. Neither is part of a module, and both are included in backups.
Bookmarks
Bookmarks are kept in a list and can be renamed and reordered. For example, you might have one bookmark for personal devotions and another for a church Bible study.
Copying & Exporting
Copying verses
Sessions & Layout
Panes can be split, resized, and popped out into separate windows, and, with the Advanced Pane Manager on, dragged. The arrangement is saved automatically.
Personalizing
Open File → Open Preferences (Ctrl+,), the Open Preferences item in the app menu on macOS, or the Preferences icon at the right of the header. The dialog has sections for General, Typography, Fonts, Themes, Privacy, Search, Downloads & storage, Apps, Advanced, and Diagnostics.
Backup & Restore
Your notes, highlights, and other data exist only on your computer. You can back them up to avoid losing them.
Keyboard Shortcuts
This list is also available in the app under Help → Show Keyboard Shortcuts, or with Ctrl+/.